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AMD Secures Massive Multi-Billion Dollar AI Chip Deal with OpenAI for 6GW Compute Capacity
AMD has signed a major multi-year deal with OpenAI to supply 6 gigawatts of compute capacity using its Instinct GPU series, potentially worth tens of billions of dollars. The agreement includes an option for OpenAI to acquire up to 160 million AMD shares (10% stake), with deployment beginning in late 2026 using the new MI450 GPU. This deal is part of OpenAI's aggressive expansion to secure compute infrastructure for AI development, following similar recent partnerships with Nvidia, Broadcom, and others.
Skynet Chance (+0.01%): Massive compute expansion enables training of more powerful AI systems with potentially less oversight due to distributed infrastructure, though this is primarily a capability scaling concern rather than a direct alignment or control issue. The impact is modest as it represents expected industry trajectory.
Skynet Date (-1 days): The deployment of 6GW of additional compute capacity starting in 2026 modestly accelerates the timeline for developing more capable AI systems that could pose control challenges. However, the 2026 start date means immediate impact is limited.
AGI Progress (+0.03%): This massive compute infrastructure investment directly addresses one of the key bottlenecks to AGI development—access to sufficient computational resources for training frontier models. The 6GW capacity represents a substantial scaling of OpenAI's training and inference capabilities.
AGI Date (-1 days): Securing guaranteed access to 6GW of compute capacity removes a major constraint on OpenAI's ability to rapidly scale model development and experimentation. This represents significant acceleration in OpenAI's AGI timeline, though deployment begins in 2026 rather than immediately.